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Converting chess diagrams to machine readable FEN with Chessify 3
April 30, 2020

Converting chess diagrams to machine readable FEN with Chessify

Chessify is a multi-service chess platform. Since I am not registered with I cannot say much about it. But a single feature of their phone app is really amazing: it allows to take photos of chess diagrams (printed or screen) and converts them into FEN (Forsyth-Edwards-Notation). This is a standard for machine readable description of chess positions. PGN employs it...

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biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released 4
December 31, 2019

biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released

Good news! Yesterday version 2.2 of my LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology was released, with which it comes close to feature completeness. There are no new features on my to-do list, only some minor improvements of existing features and better documentation. Unfortunately there was a huge delay in upgrading, and since the release of biblatex 3.14 biblatex-archaeology stopped working at all. I...

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Simultan von Vlastimil Hort in Ahnatal 5
October 29, 2019

Simultan von Vlastimil Hort in Ahnatal

Der Schachclub in Ahnatal feierte sein 50jähriges Bestehen mit einigem Aufwand. Man hatte den beliebtesten deutschen Schachentertainer Vlastimil Hort, der in den 70er und 80er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts zur Weltelite zählte, zu einer Simultanveranstaltung eingeladen. Zudem hat man eine gedruckte Chronik herausgebracht, was bei einem Bibliophilen wie mir natürlich besonderes Entzücken ausgelöst hat. Mit dem Ahnataler Verein verbinden sich...

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